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WMST 100 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (4)
In this introductory course, students will read widely in the interdisciplinary field of women’s and gender studies to explore how gender is created and maintained in society and how social categories, including race, sexuality, class, disability, and age, structure the formation and experience of gender. Coursework will emphasize critical awareness of how gender manifests and operates in political, social, economic, and cultural spheres. Students will also practice the critical thinking, writing, and dialogue skills fundamental to feminist inquiry.
Women's and Gender Studies
The Women's and Gender Studies Program invites students to use gender as a fundamental category for intersectional analysis to identify and understand the operations of power among men, women, and transgender individuals in past and present societies and, likewise, to recognize how gender has informed and interacted with diverse axes of identification including sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, age, nationality, ability, and religion. Majors will study the methods and theoretical paradigms of feminist and queer research, focusing on how theorists and scholars in the interdisciplinary field of women's and gender studies have critically engaged, challenged, generated, and revised categories of philosophical and political thought. They will learn how feminist methodologies have shaped and reshaped the ways we approach knowledge in the traditional disciplines and how they form the basis of gender, sexuality, queer, and masculinity studies. Students are encouraged to investigate the significance of gender as a cultural construction in the social and natural sciences, in historical inquiry, in the arts and literature, and in religion. They will also analyze the multiple ways in which gender influences our individual and collective assumptions in local and global contexts and informs diverse political and social debates.
American Studies
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...Spanish numbered 203 or higher or placement. WMST 100 Introduction to Women's and Gender...